Originally Posted by
LarryJ
Safety is not regulated by emotion. A safety investigation proceeds the same whether the issue was brought out by a crash killing hundreds, a cargo jet crash killing three, or battery fires on the ground with no fatalities. The issues that are uncovered in each investigation are issues that affect the safety of hundreds of thousands of passengers and crews who will fly those aircraft in the future. Repeatedly quoting fatality statistics is an example of the appeal to emotion fallacy and is not helpful in evaluating a safety issue.
That's a fallacy.
Every time you anyone else boards a plane, they are subjected to a highly regulated security kabuki that does not reflect the fact that they have a higher chance of a fatality in the taxi that they took to the airport, than of any security related event.